by Heather Hastie | Nov 3, 2017 | Simon's Cat, Tweets, US Politics
Whatever you think of President Trump’s policies, you can’t pretend that he’s presidential. His daily tweets alone are enough to condemn him in the behaviour stakes. He seems to have no appreciation whatsoever of the dignity of the office he holds....
by Heather Hastie | Nov 1, 2017 | US Politics
Now This has a new video up today about Deedra Abboud. Abboud is a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Arizona. If successful, she will be their first Muslim senator, and that would be great. A wider diversity of viewpoints is nearly always better when it comes...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 24, 2017 | Great Britain & Europe, International Politics, Middle East, Russia, US Politics, USA
The official name of the Iran Nuclear agreement is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. It was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran on one side and France, Great Britain, China, Germany, Russia, and the US on the other. The...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 10, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
The United States is rightfully proud of it’s origins. There is an underlying premise in the tweets from that country that comes from the First Amendment of their constitution – that they have freedom of speech. It’s a premise that all of us who live...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 28, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
I can’t remember what I was going to write about in today’s tweets post. I knew at 2am, but went back to sleep for a while and I’ve forgotten. Further, if I’d gotten up to write it down, I might have noticed that I’d left the oven on!...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 26, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
The CBS ’60 Minutes’ interview with Steve Bannon finally came to NZ on Sunday night. A few anti-Bannon tweets made it into the local Twittersphere as a result. As with the Evangelical nationalists, he’s another where it’s scary he’s so...
